Woman Killing and Adoption in Alicia Gaspar de Alba’s Desert Blood: The Juárez Murders (2005)

Alicia Gaspar de Alba’s novel Desert Blood: The Juárez Murders (2005) informs its readers about the serial feminicidal violence that has afflicted Ciudad Juárez, the twin town to El Paso, Texas. The novel is explicit about its feminist, political agenda and appeal to social justice. The article discusses details from the novel in which Gaspar de Alba portrays the Juárez murders in a compelling manner that employs Diana Russell’s, and Rosa Linda Fregoso and Cynthia Bejarano’s concepts of femi(ni)cide to provide a fictionalized, yet analytical, account of institutionalized gender violence targeting poor brown women. The article is innovative in its focus on Desert Bloods’ side characters, Cecilia and Elsa, who are key in Gaspar de Alba’s ability to convey the complex structure of how feminicides come to be perpetuated through the utilization of women’s bodies under capitalist and androcentric systems of social life. Concurrently, this article argues that a more careful and nuanced representation of intercountry adoption  enhances Desert Blood’s feminist and ethical appeal, and accounts in a greater detail for the dynamic of power relations between the Chicana protagonist and the two Mexican side characters of Cecilia and Elsa

Elastic, Yet Unyielding: The U.S.-Mexico Border and Anzaldúa’s Oppositional Rearticulations of the Frontier

Gloria Anzaldúa’s concept of mestiza consciousness is presented in this article as a form of epistemology that makes non-binary and non-discriminatory reinterpretations of the Western concept of the border possible. Anzaldúa’s rearticulation of the U.S.-Mexican border is contrasted with established U.S. national myths of westward expansion. The writer’s project is further illustrated by a gender- and race-sensitive analysis of the poem “We Call Them Greasers,” carried out from a postcolonial perspective and a feminist position

A contextual interpretation of "This Bridge Called My Back": nationalism, androcentrism and the means of cultural representation

Gloria Anzaldúa’s and Cherríe Moraga’s important contribution to women of color feminism, the anthology "This Bridge Called My Back: Writings by Radical Women of Color" (1981) and Anzaldúa’s masterpiece "Borderlands/La Frontera – The New Mestiza" (1987) represented a significant milestone for the evolution of contemporary Chicana literature. This essay proposes to contextualize Gloria Anzaldúa’s and Cherríe Moraga’s revolutionary approach and expose its theoretical and activist depth that has impacted both Chicana writing and –more broadly– contemporary feminist thought.La contribución fundamental de Gloria Anzaldúa y Cherríe Moraga al feminismo de las mujeres color, la antología "Esta Puente Mi Espalda: Escritos de Mujeres Radicales de Color" (1981) y la obra maestra de Anzaldúa "Borderlands / La Frontera – The New Mestiza" (1987) representaron un hito significativo para la evolución de literatura chicana. Este ensayo propone contextualizar el enfoque revolucionario de Gloria Anzaldúa y Cherríe Moraga y exponer su profundidad teórica y activista la cual ha impactado tanto en la escritura chicana como, más ampliamente, en el pensamiento feminista contemporáneo

Interpreter, interlocutor, intermediary, traitress: An exemplary figure in chicana literature and culture

La Malinche, Cortés’ interpreter and both real and symbolic mother of the mestizo race, is a paradigmatic figure in Mexican and Chicano/a cultures, in which she comes to represent an embodiment of national and linguistic betrayal. By employing postcolonial and gender studies perspectives, this article analyzes La Malinche’s liminal position within discourses of silence and speaking. It further shows how La Malinche’s hybrid identity undermines hierarchical binary oppositions implied by the process of colonization. On the other hand the article also argues that her victimization is already present in the language she speaks and is spoken about

Interpreter, interlocutor, intermediary, traitress: An exemplary figure in chicana literature and culture

La Malinche, Cortés’ interpreter and both real and symbolic mother of the mestizo race, is a paradigmatic figure in Mexican and Chicano/a cultures, in which she comes to represent an embodiment of national and linguistic betrayal. By employing postcolonial and gender studies perspectives, this article analyzes La Malinche’s liminal position within discourses of silence and speaking. It further shows how La Malinche’s hybrid identity undermines hierarchical binary oppositions implied by the process of colonization. On the other hand the article also argues that her victimization is already present in the language she speaks and is spoken about

Teorie (mexicko‑americké) hranice: Mestické vědomí Glorie Anzaldúy

Border theory, an interdisciplinary approach to the analysis of cultures located (especially) on the U.S.-Mexican border, was to a great extent initiated by the publication of Gloria Anzaldúa’s multigenre masterpiece Borderlands/La Frontera – The New Mestiza (1987), which in terms of postcolonial studies resists the canon of American literature and puts forth an indigenous, geographically and culturally situated theoretical concept of Mestiza consciousness which aims to defy Western dualistic thinking. The article, rooted in postcolonial perspectives and literary studies, looks at historical concepts of the American border, investigates the metaphorization of the US-Mexican borderlands in Anzaldúa’s work and explains her notion of Mestiza consciousness

Literární kritika jako feministická platforma

Review of book K. Kovalová (ed.). Černošská feministická literární kritik

Interpreter, interlocutor, intermediary, traitress: An exemplary figure in chicana literature and culture

La Malinche, Cortés’ interpreter and both real and symbolic mother of the mestizo race, is a paradigmatic figure in Mexican and Chicano/a cultures, in which she comes to represent an embodiment of national and linguistic betrayal. By employing postcolonial and gender studies perspectives, this article analyzes La Malinche’s liminal position within discourses of silence and speaking. It further shows how La Malinche’s hybrid identity undermines hierarchical binary oppositions implied by the process of colonization. On the other hand the article also argues that her victimization is already present in the language she speaks and is spoken about

Chicana Literature: A Feminist Perspective of Gloria Anzaldua's Identity Politics

Chicana Literature: A Feminist Perspective of Gloria Anzaldúa's Identity Politics Doctoral Thesis Mgr. et Mgr. Tereza Jiroutová Kynčlová 2017 ABSTRACT In the analyses executed in the present doctoral thesis, Chicana literary production emerges as a complex example of a strategic and reflexive instrumentalization of literature in the form of a political and activist tool contributing to Chicanas' gender and cultural emancipation on the one hand. On the other hand, within the Chicana/o context, literature is employed for perfecting the politics of recognition of the marginalized nation typified by the specificity of its geographic, cultural, and social location on the U.S.-Mexico border where a plethora of socially constructed categories interact and intersect. The doctoral thesis further provides a gender analysis of literary representations of Chicana/o lived experience by Chicana feminist writers in general and by Gloria Anzaldúa in particular, and investigates how these representations help shape feminist thought not only in relation to the U.S.-Mexico borderlands, but within and beyond the United States. Moreover, the thesis supplies an interpretation of Anzaldúa's reconceptualization of the border concept as a pertinent means for comprehending Chicanas'/os' socio-cultural context and for forging a..

Elastic, Yet Unyielding: The U.S.-Mexico Border and Anzaldúa’s Oppositional Rearticulations of the Frontier

Gloria Anzaldúa’s concept of mestiza consciousness is presented in this article as a form of epistemology that makes non-binary and non-discriminatory reinterpretations of the Western concept of the border possible. Anzaldúa’s rearticulation of the U.S.-Mexican border is contrasted with established U.S. national myths of westward expansion. The writer’s project is further illustrated by a gender- and race-sensitive analysis of the poem “We Call Them Greasers,” carried out from a postcolonial perspective and a feminist position